Henry Kolker
Born: 1874-11-12 in Berlin, Germany
Died: 1947-07-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Henry Kolker (November 13, 1874) [some sources 1870] Berlin, Prussia, Germany – July 15, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actor and director. Kolker came to America at the age of five and his family settled in Quincy, Illinois. Kolker, like fellow actors Richard Bennett and Robert Warwick, had a substantial stage career behind him before entering silent films. On stage he appeared opposite such leading ladies as Edith Wynne Matthison, Bertha Kalich and Ruth Chatterton. Kolker is best remembered for his motion picture appearances and for appearing with Barbara Stanwyck in the ground-breaking Pre-Code film Baby Face (1933) as the elderly CEO of the company whom Stanwyck's character seduces. Another well remembered part is as Mr. Seton, father of Katharine Hepburn and Lew Ayres in the 1938 film Holiday directed by George Cukor. Kolker entered films as an actor in 1915 and eventually ended up trying his hand at directing. Kolker's best known directorial effort is Disraeli (1921), starring George Arliss which is now a lost film with only one reel remaining. Prints however exist in Europe and Russia.
Filmography
1944
- Bluebeard as Deschamps
1943
- Sarong Girl as Jefferson Baxter
1942
- Reunion in France as General Bartholomew (uncredited)
1941
- A Woman's Face as Judge
- Las Vegas Nights as William Stevens Sr.
- The Man Who Lost Himself as T.J. Mulhausen
- The Great Swindle as Stewart Cordell
- The Parson of Panamint as Judge Arnold Mason
- Sing for Your Supper as Myron T. Hayworth
1940
- Money and the Woman as Mr. Rollins
- Grand Ole Opry as William C. Scully
1939
- Let Us Live as Chief of Police
- Union Pacific as Asa M. Barrows
- The Real Glory as The General
- Hidden Power as Weston
- Main Street Lawyer as Donnelly, District Attorney
- Here I Am a Stranger as R.J. Bennett
- These Glamour Girls as Philip S. Griswold II (uncredited)
- Parents on Trial as James Wesley
1938
- Holiday as Edward Seton
- Marie Antoinette as Court Aide (uncredited)
- The Cowboy and the Lady as Horace Smith
- Too Hot to Handle as Pearly Todd
- The Adventures of Marco Polo as Nicolo Polo
- The Invisible Menace as Col. Hackett
- Love Is a Headache as Mr. Sam Ellinger (uncredited)
- Safety in Numbers as Dr. Lawrence Edmonds
1937
- Maid of Salem as Crown Chief Justice Laughton
- They Wanted to Marry as Mr. Hunter
- Once a Doctor as Bruce Nordland
- Thoroughbreds Don't Cry as "Doc" Godfrey
- Let Them Live as Judge Lederer
- The Devil Is Driving as Charles Stevens
- Green Light as Dr. Lane
- Under Cover of Night as District Attorney Pritchard
1936
- Romeo and Juliet as Friar Laurence
- Bullets or Ballots as Mr. Hollister
- The Man Who Lived Twice as Judge Treacher
- Collegiate as Mr. MacGregor
- My Marriage as Maj. Vaile
- Theodora Goes Wild as Jonathan Grant
- Great Guy as Abel Canning
- Sitting on the Moon as Worthington
1935
- The Black Room as Baron de Berghman
- Mad Love as Prefect Rosset
- Shipmates Forever as Doctor (uncredited)
- Reckless as Mr. Gearhart (uncredited)
- The Case of the Curious Bride as District Attorney Stacey
- I Live My Life as Relative at Mrs. Gage's (Uncredited)
- One New York Night as Arthur Carlisle
- Spring Tonic as Mr. Enix
- Diamond Jim as J.C. Randolf - Bank President
- The Last Days of Pompeii as Warder (uncredited)
- 3 Kids and a Queen as Crippet
- Here Comes the Band as Simmon's Attorney
- Times Square Lady as Mr. Fielding
- The Mystery Man as Ellwyn A. 'Jo-Jo' Jonas
- Frisco Waterfront as District Attorney
- Honeymoon Limited as Mr. Randall
- The Florentine Dagger as Auctioneer
- Red Salute as Dean
- A Dog of Flanders as Monsieur LaTour, Art Critic (uncredited)
- Red Hot Tires as Martin Sanford
- Charlie Chan in Paris as Paul Lamartine
- Go Into Your Dance as Doctor
- Society Doctor as Dr. Harvey
1934
- The Girl from Missouri as Senator Titcombe
- Imitation of Life as Dr. Preston (uncredited)
- Now and Forever as Mr. Clark
- Let's Try Again as Mr. Blake
- Whom the Gods Destroy as Carlo - the Puppeteer
- The Hell Cat as C.W. Sloane
- One Exciting Adventure as Customer, Oscar
- Bedside as Maritza's Manager
- Wonder Bar as R. H. Renaud
- Blind Date as J.W. Hartwell Sr.
- The Ghost Walks as Dr. Kent
- A Lost Lady as John Ormsby
- Let's Talk It Over as Doctor
- The Band Plays On as Professor Hackett
- Journal of a Crime as Henri Marcher
- Success at Any Price as Hatfield
- Million Dollar Ransom as Dr. Davis (Uncredited)
- Love Time as Emperor Francis I
- She Loves Me Not as Charles M. Lawton
- Sing Sing Nights as Kurt Nordon
- I've Got Your Number as Lawyer Robert Kirkland
- Black Moon as The Psychiatrist
- Lady by Choice as Opper
- Sisters Under the Skin as Jones
- Name the Woman as Judge Adams
1933
- Baby Face as J.R. Carter
- Hello, Sister! as Jameson Brewster - Bank President
- Golden Harvest as Henry Flint
- Bureau of Missing Persons as Theodore Arno
- The Narrow Corner as Mr. Blake, Fred's Father
- Blood Money as Newspaper Managing Editor (uncredited)
- I Loved a Woman as Mr. Sanborn
- The Power and the Glory as Mr. Borden
- Notorious But Nice as Defense Attorney Clark
- The Keyhole as Schuyler Brooks
- Meet the Baron as Baron Munchausen
- Gigolettes of Paris as Police Interrogator
- A Bedtime Story as Agent de Police
- Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! as The Judge
1932
- Rasputin and the Empress as Chief of Secret Police (uncredited)
- Jewel Robbery as Baron Franz Hohenfels
- Devil and the Deep as Hutton
- Faithless as Mr. Carter
- The Crash as John Fair
- The First Year as Peter Barstow
- The Washington Masquerade as Stapleton
1931
- The Spy as Tchijinski
- The Unholy Garden as Col. Lautrac
- Indiscreet as Mr. Woodward
- I Like Your Nerve as Areal Pacheco
- Quick Millions as District Attorney (uncredited)
- The Yellow Ticket as Passport Clerk
- Don't Bet on Women as Butterfield (uncredited)
1930
- Abraham Lincoln as New Englander (uncredited)
- Du Barry, Woman of Passion as D'Aiguillon
- East Is West as Mr. Benson
- The Bad One as Prosecutor
- Good Intentions as Butler
- The Way of All Men as Sharp
- One Heavenly Night as Prefect of Police
1929
- Coquette as Jasper Carter
- The Valiant as Judge
- Love, Live & Laugh as Enrico
- Pleasure Crazed as Col. Farquar
1928
- Soft Living as Rodney S. Bowen
- Midnight Rose as Corbin
- Don't Marry as General Willoughby
- The Beautiful Spy as Viceroy Cisneros
1927
- A Kiss in a Taxi as Leon Lambert
1926
- The Palace of Pleasure as Don Sebastian, Premier
- Hell's Four Hundred as John Gilmore
- Wet Paint as A Husband
1925
- Sally, Irene and Mary as Marcus Morton
- Any Woman as Egbert Phillips
1924
- The Great Well ... (Director)
- I Will Repay ... (Director)
1923
- The Leopardess ... (Director)
- The Purple Highway ... (Director)
- The Snow Bride ... (Director)
- Sant'Ilario ... (Director)
1921
- Disraeli ... (Director)
- The Fighter ... (Director)
- Bucking the Tiger ... (Director)
- A Man of Stone as (Uncredited)
1920
- Heart of Twenty ... (Director)
- The Third Generation ... (Director)
- The Palace of Darkened Windows ... (Director)
- The Greatest Love ... (Director)
1919
- Blackie's Redemption as Fred the Count
- The Brat as A Dandy
- The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns as Kaiser Wilhelm II
- The Parisian Tigress as Henri Dutray
- The Woman Michael Married ... (Director)
- A Man's Country ... (Director)
- Her Purchase Price as Duke of Wryden
1918
- The House of Mirth as Lawrence Selden
- The Shell Game as Lawrence Gray
- Social Hypocrites as Dr. Frank Simpson
1916
- Gloria's Romance as Dr. Stephen Royce
1915
- The Warning as Robert Denman
- How Molly Malone Made Good as Himself
- The Man with the Iron Heart ... (Story)